Feed and litter carrier.



PATENTED FEB. 14, 1905.

W. & R. B. LOUDEN. FEED AND LITTER CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4. 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented February 14, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM LOUDEN AND ROBERT B. LOUDEN, OF FAIRFIELD, IOIV A.

FEED AND LITTER CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,785, dated February 14, 1905.

Original application filed November 19, 1902, Serial No. 132,037. Divided and this application filed February 4, 1904. $erial 1'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WVILLIAM LOUDEN and ROBERT B. LoUDEN, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Fairfield, in the county of J'eiierson and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feed and Litter Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to litter-carriers, and particularly to a class thereunder known as buckets or boxes of the dumping type.

An object of the invention is to produce a novel form of a box or bucket with means for suspending the box or bucket to permit it to partially rotate and in the provision of novel means for retaining the box or bucket in an upright position while being conveyed.

Furthermore, an object of the invention is to provide novel means for releasing both ends of the box or bucket simultaneously and for permitting the said box or bucket to partially rotate to release its contents.

A still further object of the invention is to provide novel connections between the box or bucket and its hangers, the said connections being independent of the box or bucket, except as to its connection or attachment therewith, which attachment is of the removable type, permitting the said connection to be applied or removed withoutinterfering with the wall of the bucket or box.

Finally, an object of the invention is to provide a bucket or box of the character described which will possess advantages in points of simplicity, efficiency, and durability, proving at the same time satisfactory in use and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and speciiically claimed.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, wherein like characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is a perspective of a bucket or box and its supporting and conveying mechanism,

the said bucket or box embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing a fragment of the bucket or box on the line2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is asectional view of a fragment of the bucket or box on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings the box U is suspended to the shaft E by means of two metal bars V, one of which is secured to each end of the box, and by the chains X, which are connected at their lower ends to the upper ends of the bars V and affixed at their upper ends to the shaft E near each end, so as to wind thereon. By pulling on the near side of the loop of the rope L the wheel H will be rotated, which in turn will rotate the gear F, to which the shaft is secured. and by this means the chains X will be wound on the shaft E and the box U will be elevated.

The foregoing described and illustrated elements, except the box or bucket, have been fully described and claimed in a companion application which was filed on the 19th day of November, 1902, and numbered 132,037, of which this application is a division.

The box U may be made in any suitable manner; but it is preferably made of sheet metal rounded at the bottom and secured to wooden ends 11, with strengthening-pieces 12 at the upper edges. The ends 11 are preferably made in two sections set vertically and tongued and grooved at their meeting edges and have an additional brace 13 set horizontally on the lower half of theirinner sides. End pieces-13' are also aflixed to the upper edges of their outer sides. The whole is joined together so as to make the box or bucket water-tight.

The bars V are pivoted to the ends of the box U, near the centers thereof, by means of the casting 14, which is secured to the box by the bolts 15. The casting 14. is recessed on its inner side, and on the outer side it is fitted with a tubular projection which is passed through a hole in the lower end of the bar V. A bolt 16 is passed through this tubular part and also through a washer 17 by means of which the bar V is held in place, so that the box will turn on said pivot.

To hold the box in upright position, so it can be loaded and will carry its load, latches 18 are pivoted to brackets 19, which are bolted to the pieces 13 on each end of the box U. These latches have their inner ends made with hooks 20, so as to catch and hold the bars V. v Their outer ends are loosely joined to the outer ends of connecting-rods 21. These connecting-rods are passed through keepers 22 and have their inner ends pivoted to the opposite ends of a bar 23, which is centrally pivoted to a pintle-platc 24:. In this way latches are made to move in unison and to simultaneously engage and disengage the bars V at the opposite ends of the box U.

To release the bars V and permit the box to turn over and discharge its load, the outer end of one of the latches is pushed against the end of the box, which causes the hooked ends 20 to move away from the bars and permit the box to turn on the pivots formed by the castings 14, These pivots may be placed a little to one side of the center of the box, or it can be loaded more heavily toward the front side, so as to cause it to turn and discharge its load. A spring 25 is adjusted to the latches 18 so as to hold the hooks 20 in contact with the bar V.

The construction, operation, and advantages will, it is thought, be understood from the foregoing description, it being noted that various changes may be resorted to in the proportions and details of construction for successfully carrying the invention into practice without departing from the scope thereof.

Having fully described the invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a carrying device, a box having two ends with straight upper edges and rounded lower edges, a sheet-metal plate secured to the said ends to form the sides and bottom of an approximately semicylindrical box, the upper edges of the said plate terminating on a plane with the ends, reinforcing-strips secured to the upper edges of the sides and ends of the box, and latching mechanism mounted on said reinforcing-strips.

2-. In a carrying device, a box having two ends with rounded bottoms, a sheetmetal plate secured to said ends so as to form the sides and bottom of said box, reinforcingpieces secured to the bottoms of said ends on their inner sides, and reinforcing-strips secured to the upper edges of the sides and ends on the outer sides of the box.

3. In a carrying device, a box having pivots secured centrally of its ends, hanger-bars engaging the pivots, brackets adapted to engage the hanger-bars to limit the swing of the bucket in one direction, latches pivoted to the brackets and means for moving the latches in unison.

4. In a carrying device, a box having pivots secured to the central portions of its ends, a vertically-disposed upwardly-extending bar connected to said pivot at each end, and latches having extended ends, connecting-rods secured to said extended ends and joined together so as to communicate the movement of the latch at one end to the latch at the opposite end.

. 5. In a device of the character described, a suitable bucket, connecting-rods movable longitudinally of the bucket, latches suitably pivoted and moved in unison by the connectingrods, hangers for the bucket and means for causing the latches to engage the hanger-rods, substantially as described.

6. In a device of the character described, a pivot-casting having a recess in the central portion of its rear side, and a tubular boss or pintle on the central part of its front side, a washer placed at the end of said boss and a bolt passed through the boss and washer whereby a supporting-bar may be securely pivoted thereto and to freely turn thereon.

In testimony whereof we afl'ix our signatures, in the presence of two witnesses, this 1st day of February, 1904.

WVILLIAM LOUDEN. ROBERT B. LOUDEN. Witnesses:

R. B. LOUDEN, Jr., THos. LOUDEN. 

